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• Bernardus Hendrikus (Ben) Zwinkels, Wateringen, Nederland († 2006)
• Antonius Eggelen van, Nieuwkuijk († 1926)
• Delmer Dean Greenlee, Mitchell, Mitchell County, Iowa († 2002)
• Aaltje Huisman († 1926)
• Adelbert Franciscus Maria DIEMEL, Zeist († 1995)
• Cornelia Jacoba (Corrie) de Wit, Texel († 2017)
• Antonie Hendrikus Oonk, Deventer, prov. Overijssel († 2003)
• Albertus Johannes Hillegaart, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Bertha Smit, Amsterdam († 2004)
• Antoni Beunk, Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1976)

• Adriaan de KORTE (55), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christina Roeling (96), Schiedam
• Arnoldus van Buul (70), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Marinus Sterk (72), Vuren
• CORNELIS LOIJKENS (86), TILBURG
• Apolonia CORNELISSEN (76), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna HANENKAMP (76), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis Seuren (89), Venray
• Apolonia Cornelissen (76), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Leonora Reijnders (1), Meerlo, Li.NL

• 1924 » Connie Converse, American musician and singer-songwriter
• 1924 » Leon Uris, American soldier and author († 2003)
• 1925 » Lewis Rowland, American neurologist († 2017)
• 1925 » Marv Levy, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager
• 1926 » Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author († 2004)
• 1926 » Gordon Scott, American actor († 2007)
• 1926 » Rona Anderson, Scottish-English actress († 2013)
• 1926 » Tony Bennett, American singer and actor
• 1928 » Cécile Aubry, French actress, director, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1928 » Henning Moritzen, Danish actor († 2012)

• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)
• 1925 » William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
• January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
• March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
• April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
• May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
• May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
• May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.

The temperature on August 3, 1926 was between 11.1 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.